virtual academy 2022-2023

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You know what’s funny. I bet each and every single one of your dear angels will have to take a class or work virtually at some point. And I’ll go even further and bet your parents were the ones who screamed about car seat belts when they first came out too. We get it. Change is hard. It will be ok. We all will move and embrace new tech on while you sit and sulk (while you are communicating virtually here in this forum). 🤣

You argument about MVA being the wave of the future that a bunch of DCUM luddites are complaining about because they're just too old and slow to adapt to change would be much better if the enrollment of the MVA program itself did not decrease by 40% each year it has been in place. If it were such a dynamic, cutting-edge program perhaps it would do a better job retaining those who opt to try it out.

2021-22: 2,629 students enrolled in the Academy,
2022-23: 1,565 students
2023-24: 878 students

The decrease is not a surprise with Covid stabilizing and mcps schools not allowing activities if in the MVA. Your current enrollment is not accurate. Read the document carefully.

This has been covered before - try reading more closely. The aggregate numbers are correct, despite some individual entries less than 10 not being specified. Nice try to dodge.

And anyway, the takeaway here is that the program is so critical for kids that once they can't do after school clubs 67% of them are willing to go back to in-person school despite how life and death it is for them to be virtual?

Perhaps if they had better teachers, like those in the MVA, they would have learned how to read those documents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

The numbers are not accurate! The data are not accurate! The attendance is not accurate! The quotes from doctors are not accurate! The only thing that's true is what I and 10 other people say on a change.org petition!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

The numbers are not accurate! The data are not accurate! The attendance is not accurate! The quotes from doctors are not accurate! The only thing that's true is what I and 10 other people say on a change.org petition!

I feel sorry for the MVA loony parents. They really can't see how unreasonable and unhinged they sound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

Omg. You are seriously using her?? I wouldn’t send my dog to be treated by her. She’s an open MCPS nut. Very biased.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

The numbers are not accurate! The data are not accurate! The attendance is not accurate! The quotes from doctors are not accurate! The only thing that's true is what I and 10 other people say on a change.org petition!

I feel sorry for the MVA loony parents. They really can't see how unreasonable and unhinged they sound.

I feel sorry for your kids. Given how you treat strangers I can only imagine how you treat them. And given you spend your life attacking others on social media you probably spend little time with your kids. Good thing mcps is there to step in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

The numbers are not accurate! The data are not accurate! The attendance is not accurate! The quotes from doctors are not accurate! The only thing that's true is what I and 10 other people say on a change.org petition!

Read the attendance report. It only included schools that had 10 or more kids. Reading is not your strong suit. It’s ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

The numbers are not accurate! The data are not accurate! The attendance is not accurate! The quotes from doctors are not accurate! The only thing that's true is what I and 10 other people say on a change.org petition!

Read the attendance report. It only included schools that had 10 or more kids. Reading is not your strong suit. It’s ok.

Again with the ad hominem attacks. Just stop it - it's lazy and makes you seem unhinged and desperate. But if I take your point as correct, I guess maybe 65% of original attendees have left the program since its inception then? 60% to be generous? The point still stands - a program that can't keep half of its participants is clearly failing at its job if people are fleeing for the exits at such large numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

The numbers are not accurate! The data are not accurate! The attendance is not accurate! The quotes from doctors are not accurate! The only thing that's true is what I and 10 other people say on a change.org petition!

Read the attendance report. It only included schools that had 10 or more kids. Reading is not your strong suit. It’s ok.

Again with the ad hominem attacks. Just stop it - it's lazy and makes you seem unhinged and desperate. But if I take your point as correct, I guess maybe 65% of original attendees have left the program since its inception then? 60% to be generous? The point still stands - a program that can't keep half of its participants is clearly failing at its job if people are fleeing for the exits at such large numbers.

Ok, you have no direct experience and are spending your time ranting about a program helping kids. Please, keep ranting, petition numbers are going up. Thanks for the support.

Strange way you choose to spend your time. Don’t you have a job?

[Anonymous]

Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It amazes how polarizing the VA is. What's the big deal?

Amen… I’ve literally had to move bc of my job… virtual is everywhere. Somehow MoCo parents didn’t get that message. So behind the times and just insufferable people. I cannot wait to be transferred.

They don’t want to put any effort into their kids. That’s why schools have so many issues.

Methinks most people posting here are the teachers who like to sit at home and teach on the computer lol.

Ok name some names if you are so sure.

Sounding a bit defensive. I wonder why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

❤️

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

❤️

If only the MVA were that successful in getting people to sign up and actually stay in the program

Maybe use change.org for applications next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

❤️

If only the MVA were that successful in getting people to sign up and actually stay in the program

Maybe use change.org for applications next year?

Isn’t it time for you to make dinner? Do something productive? Hang out with your kids? Unless they also can’t stand you.